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Pope Gregory the Great was a monk?

True

The Synod of Whitby solved military differences?

False

The Corpus Juris Civilis is a religious document?

False

The City of God was written by St. Augustine?

True

All of the germanic tribes where Roman Catholic?

False

The Huns where an Asiatic tribe?

True

Being Arian Christians ended up as a problem for many germanic tribes because it gave Clovis a reason to attack them?

True

The Scourge of God

Attila

Witan

Counselors to Germanic king

Vandals

Germanic tribe

Clovis

Established Frankish kingdom

Ambrose

Doctor of the church

caliph

Islamic ruler

Five Germanic tribes are:

Angles, Saxons, Vandals, Franks, and Goths

The Ostrogoth ruler who deposed Odacer was

Theodoric

The three methods of determining innocence or guilt in Germanic law were

Compensation, trail by ordeal, and swearing of oath

Theodoric the Ostrogoth established his capital city in

Ravenna

Archeological find that gave insight into Anglo-Saxon culture:

Burial ship at Sutton Hoo

The British King who asked for aid from the Angles and Saxons in the fifth century was

Vortigern

The establishment of Catholicism in Western Europe is credited to

Clovis

What did most Germanic kingdoms have in common

Pagan background, Arian Christians, witans, comitatus justice system.

What did Clovis do?

Clovis established the French Kingdom.


Fought pagan tribes


Credited for Roman Catholicism in Western Europe

What poem describes the treasures found at Sutton Hoo?

Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf

Charles Martel

The Hammer

Pope Leo III

Crowned Charlemagne

1055

Fall of Baghdad to Turks

Abbot

Head of monastery

Rollo

Viking leader

Boethius

Consolation of Philosophy

Aix-la-Chapelle

Charlemagne's capital

Jerome

Latin Vulgate

Emperor Leo III

Leader of iconoclast movement

Alcuin of York

English scholar

A religious image or picture is sometimes called

An icon

The Frankish Kings of the seventh century where called the

Do-Nothing-Kings

The Donation of Pepin refers to

Papal States

Another term for the germanic practice of compensation was

Wergild

The Treaty of Verdun

Divided Charlemagne's kingdom

The vikings where also called

Norsemen

A famous illuminated manuscript is

Book of Kells

The spread of Western monasticism was due largely to

St. Benedict

The middle ages are the years A.D. 100-400?

False

Charlemagne's father was Pepin the Short?

True

East Frankland was given to Louis the German?

True

Baghdad became the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

False

How was the crowing of Charlemagne significant?

Both politically and religiously

Muslim Spain was a cultural center in the tenth century?

True

Alfred was King of Wessex?

True

The Praetorian guard was

The emperors personal guard

After the fifth century the bishop of Rome was referred to as the

Pope or Papa

The Huns, Magyars, Mongols, and Bulgars where

Asiatic tribes

Three causes for the barbarian invasions of the 4th century:

Push westward by the Huns


The number of barbarians


Weakened state of Roman military power

Monte Cassino was

The site of Benedict's monestary

What was the comitatus?

A term for a group of warriors sworn to protect the king.

Why did the Arab invasions begin?

Need for land and grazing areas, Arabs setting out war against "infidels"

What was the Carolingian Renaissance

The reign of Charlemagne and his sons. They pushed forward in culture and art.

Feudalism concerned the lower classes?

False

The Ummayad Kingdom of Cordoba was Muslim?

True

Clunny was a reformed monestary?

True

Hugh Capet was an early English King?

False

Scholasticism was a system of religious Philosophy?

True

The children's crusade was successful?

False

The serfs followed the chivalric code?

False

The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453?

True

Chaucer was a great English poet?

True

A fief was land granted to a noble?

True

Dante

Great Italian poet

Ivan the Great

First great Russian monarch

Boethius

Consolation of Philosophy

Augustine of Canterbury

Missionary to England

The Song of Roland

French epic

King John

Magna Carta

Gothic Architecture

Notre Dame de Paris

Bailiff

Ran the financial business of the manor

Trivium

Latin grammar, rhetoric, logic